This week TIME'S Nation section carries two wide-ranging interviews, one with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, the other with Vice President-Designate Nelson Rockefeller. The World section contains an extended interview with Constantino Caramanlis -one of the first that Greece's Premier has given to an American journalist since the military junta resigned under pressure last July. In recent weeks TIME has run interviews with a host of world figures, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek.

In the normal course of a week's work, TIME correspondents may talk to sources ranging from telepaths to TV stars, such as Cover Subjects Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper. But interviews with leading political and diplomatic figures often pose unique problems; many demand written questions in advance as well as the right to edit their own statements. Even security can be an obstacle. After elaborate negotiations, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager was chauffeured to his recent rendezvous with Arafat, who is head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, through the twisting streets of Lebanon's capital in a guerrilla staff car. Prager met Arafat in a modest flat in a nondescript apartment building guarded by fedayeen armed with Soviet AK-47 assault rifles.

Paris Correspondent George Taber has interviewed French President Giscard three times in the past fifteen months-including one mid-air talk on Giscard's campaign plane.

Taber reports that Giscard, an avid and critical reader of the magazine, attacks transcripts of his talks with a green felt-tipped pen -and a precise feel for English nuance. Giscard's editing affected the stylistic polish of his answers but not their substance, and what the French President said proved to be of more than usual interest to his countrymen. His remarks in a recent interview with Taber, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers (TIME, Oct. 7) were widely reported and analyzed by the French radio and press. Such scrutiny is partly due to the inaccessibility of foreign leaders. And, as Correspondent Gavin Scott, who talked with President Francisco da Costa Gomes for World's story on Portugal notes: "No national leader chats with journalists for desultory and innocuous reasons. All have a message to convey, and often they see TIME as their vehicle."

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